How many miles is too many?

[ConnHummer]

Have been looking online at many H2's, and wondering if anyone has bought a high mileage H2 here? Found one that was: one owner, clean carfax, no accidents, etc but had many highway miles. Just looking for some input; what major has to be replaced at a certain mileage. Thanks for any help!

[twr]

hi how many miles are on the truck?

[ConnHummer]

Oops, should have included that. It has 100k miles, its an 04.

[Scarsman]

Originally Posted by ConnHummer

Oops, should have included that. It has 100k miles, its an 04.

I don't worry so much about miles as general condition of the vehicle. If it has been taken care of then there should only be normal general wear items. I have known many guys who took really good care of their trucks and were still driving just fine with over 200,000. I know of one guy who owned an engine/machine shop ad had an S-10 pickup for his gopher truck. That thing was beat to hell so bad the bed was nearly flapping in the wind. It was used for throwing engine blocks in and hauling scrap junk blocks away. Last time I saw it it had 370,000 miles on the original motor and tranny and was still going. It didn't even smoke!

Obviously this precludes those bad problems that do happens sometimes. That is just the nature of mechanical machines!

[twr]

Hi if its a good price and you check it out well or better yet get someone to look it over for you if your not to mechanical.

[Tex_h2]

I've got an 04 w/ 95,000 miles. I've taken really good care of her since I drove it off the lot. "knock on wood" still running strong! But, if you are about to buy an 04 w/100 miles I wouldn't you just don't know how it was driven.

[Xotik H3]

I would look it over very well. An 04 in the rust belt could be hiding a lot of headaches that will come out in a year or two.

I had an 01 with 109000, Dodge Ram. It was from Delaware and had to have been driven in every snowfall. The doors started to rust from the inside, the breaklines, and powersteering lines are steel... rusted through and ruptured.

I fixed everything and sold the truck.

My H2 is from Texas, not a lot of rian, not snow and salt... looks BRAND new under it.